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Engineering calculations are at the heart of product design. They are essential to every step of the design process. To achieve excellence in engineering, teams need a comprehensive yet intuitive application that performs calculations with accuracy and precision, enables traceability, protects intellectual property, and shows their work. With PTC Mathcad, it’s easy.
PTC Mathcad has all your engineering notebook’s • Increase productivity with full units intelligence ease-of-use and familiarity with live mathematical throughout calculations notation and units intelligence. Most importantly, the calculation capabilities produce far more accurate • Get instant access to comprehensive learning results than a spreadsheet can provide. Using PTC materials and tutorials from within the product Mathcad’s rich array of mathematical functionality, to get productive faster you can document your most critical engineering calculations as easily as you can write them. Show Calculation your work using rich formatting options alongside plots, text, and images in a single, professionally- • Create calculations using standard operator formatted document. Nobody needs specialized skills notation for algebra, calculus, differential to create or consume PTC Mathcad data. equations, logic, linear algebra, and more
• Evaluate, solve & manipulate expressions symbolically When your intellectual property is shareable, easily readable, and lives in one place, you’ve moved • Support for various data types including: from managing information to making it a source of competitive advantage. - Scalar, vectors and matrices
Key Benefits - Complex numbers
- • Securely communicate design intent and Create selectable lists of items to calculate engineering knowledge using the combo box input control.
• Intuitively construct calculations using standard math notation
• Author professional quality documents complete with live math, full-featured plots, rich text, and images
• Repurpose standardized calculations to streamline next generation product development and avoid the need to recreate calculations
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Documentation and presentation Functions
• Documentation and presentation • Data analysis
• Multi-document, task-oriented UI • Curve fitting and smoothing
• WYSIWYG document editing • Probability and statistics
• Document formatting and control • Signal and image processing
• Full control over text and math formatting • Differential equations
• Collapsible, lockable areas to prevent viewing or • Solving and optimization modification of proprietary information • File I/O
• And hundreds more
Units management system
• Comprehensive unit support for numeric and symbolic calculations, functions, solve blocks, tables, vectors/matrices, and plots
• Automatic unit checking and conversion
• Leverage hundreds of predefined units
• Define custom units
Content protection
• Prevent accidental or intentional modification of specified calculations with password protection
• Lock content to prevent viewing and hide proprietary information
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Plotting and graphing Solving
• X Y plots • Solvers for linear and nonlinear systems of algebraic and differential equations - scatter, line, column, bar, stem, waterfall, error, box, and effects • Optimize constrained systems using the robust and powerful KNITRO® engine • 3-D plots • Display symbolic solutions to systems of equations • Polar plots
• Contour plots
Data
• Integrate Microsoft® Excel ® component to enable bidirectional data passing with PTC Mathcad worksheet content
• Connect to external data files using read and write functions for various file formats including:
- Text (.txt)
- Excel (.xlsx, .xls, .csv)
- Image (.bmp, .jpg)
- Write powerful integrations between PTC Mathcad and your favorite third-party applications using the Mathcad API
• Incorporate embedded content from external applications (OLE)
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Engineering Notebook, Powered by PTC Mathcad
• Document design intent by embedding PTC Mathcad worksheets directly within a PTC Creo part or assembly
• Drive PTC Creo models from PTC Mathcad results
• Reference PTC Creo parameters as inputs to PTC Mathcad calculations
Programming
• Add logic using familiar programming constructs and natural math notation
• Loops (for, while)
• Conditional statements (if, else if, else)
• Error catching (try/on error) Please visit the PTC Support page for the most up-to- • Build recursive functions date platform support and system requirements.
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